Content

12.1

This report seeks agreement
from the Committee to endorse the recommendations of the Task and
Finish Group which met between July 2023 and January 2024 and to
approve the First Consideration for Biodiversity Report.

 

 

12.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That the Communities, Parks
and Leisure Policy Committee:
 

1.    
notes the contents of the report and thanks everyone
involved in the productive and useful discussions had during the
Task and Finish Group;
 

2.    
endorses the recommendations proposed by the Task
and Finish Group; and
 

3.    
approves the First Consideration for Biodiversity
Report.

 

 

12.3

Reasons for Decision

 

 

12.3.1

The Task and Finish Group brought together a
focused group of Members, Officers and external partners to examine
key challenges around the nature emergency and provide clear advice
and direction to officers developing an action plan for the Council
and city.

 

 

12.4.1

The breadth and scale of the challenge means
that the work of the Task and Finish Group represents one stage in
a wider strategy that the Council and city work on to support
nature recovery and the scale and cross cutting nature of this
agenda is not yet fully understood.

 

 

12.4

Alternatives Considered and Rejected

 

 

12.4.1

Do nothing. Not responding to the nature
emergency declaration and working across the Council and with
partners across the city would prevent us capturing the work being
undertaken and understanding the scale of the challenge going
forwards.